This article is about Christianity and Christians real vs. so-called Christians. It speaks of Christianity as not being a jewelry store where people get to pick and chose whom they should love. It speaks of the rock b/w Christianity and God's love. It points out how Gays and the LGBT people aren't the real dilemma of the Christian Church but plainly how being evil and hateful are the real issues.

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When I think of
Christianity I think of God, love and goodness; when thinking of what doesn't
fall into the realm of Christianity many other things enter my mind. It comes to light that Christianity is not
like going to a jewelry store or to an exclusive retail store; we don't get to
pick and choose which way is the right way to love. We cannot go into a store
and pick out people to love like diamonds, gold, silver, cell phones, PCs or
any other electronic equipment; people are not things. Jesus' example of love is
simple; "This is my commandment, that you
love one another as I have loved you." < http://www.biblestudytools.com/nrs/john/15-12.html >

Jesus didn't have any
problem loving people; he loved everyone and many criticized him for his
association with certain people in much the same way that some people are
criticized for their friendship with Gays, Lesbians, Bisexual and Transgender
people. Jesus' love encompassed what today some might call the others: the
blind, the deaf, the crippled, the epileptics, the lepers, people with AIDS and other diseased people, along with prostitutes,
the homeless and the poor. Gay and lesbian people were around in Biblical times
as well as today; we are not a new kind of people; Jesus loved us then and he
loves us now. Just because the Bible doesn't really speak of two men and two
women loving each other as much as it does the heterosexual people doesn't mean
that we were not there. Being unfit or having dirty filthy sex does not pertain
to one particular group of people; if the closet doors were to swing open to
people of all lifestyles, what films and writings have already shown would be
pale in comparison to what be found.

Various writings have
divulged some things about some of the Catholic Churches and have shown us many
instances with many of their Priests, who have been accused by some of those
young boys now men, who have come forward and told of being raped and sexually
abused by these so-called Holy Fathers. < http://formercatholicsforchrist.yuku.com/topic/3788 >

Clean is clean and unclean is
unclean and people from all walks of life fall into both categories, even if they
are married, heterosexual, gay, prisoners, prison guards, teachers, police
officers, politicians, from congressmen to senators, ordained clergy or other
people associated with different religious groups, even presidents.

You see as Christians many of
us fall short from the grace of God as we journey on, and many of us have
fallen into these unclean categories. As civilized people we don't get to love
who we want when we want, the same way parents don't get to love certain
children that they bring into the world as opposed to other children that might
be more effeminate than their male counterparts or a little manlier than their
female counterparts; this also includes children that are disabled as some are
when they are born or become so after. Jesus
loves all of us; why should we think that we're above him and that we should be
able to pick and choose? We are all gifts from God and should be treated as
such; as I say in my book "Born In The
Wrong Country," "Love is the most precious thing in the world, it's
beautiful and then there's the laughter." There isn't any place in the Bible
that God says that if you aren't pleased with your children that you don't have
to love or take care of them, and that you can mistreat or abuse them. If
someone tells you any different then they are wrong and I believe that they do
not understand God's love.

It doesn't matter who wants
to teach us about love, whether they're Priests, Pastors, Rabbis, Ministers, Clerics
or ordinary people, male or female; if they cannot love as Jesus loved or
refuse to follow Jesus' commandments then what right do they have to tell Gays,
Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender people whom they should love or what they
should be allowed to do? Remember this country already did this to the African slaves
that they bought, stole and incarcerated, unfortunately much of this isn't
taught in our history books. Today slavery still remains alive in other parts
of the world, as does sexual slavery.

Jesus is love and love
doesn't know anything but loving, just as the sun doesn't know anything other
than giving light, or shining; the wind doesn't know anything but blowing; the
rivers don't know any thing but flowing; and the rain doesn't know anything
except raining. Some of your so-called Christians like Archbishop Timothy Dolan
would have you believe that it is wrong for you to love some of your neighbors
that are Gay, Lesbian and others, but thank God that he and other like minded
Priests, Pastors, Rabbis and Clergy aren't the ones that mandate God's love.

I would ask these Priests, Pastors
and ordained ministers of God's written word to define and show their love,
because I don't really think many of them really get what love is all about. I
don't have any problem loving people; it comes natural and many other Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender men and women don't have any problem with loving others
either.

You see there is what I'd
call a rock in many so-called Christian beliefs, which interferes with their
perception of the way God loves and the way they love. This rock that I speak
of is the rock that they put between them and God's love; it prevents them from
loving the way God loves. Many so-called Christians put this rock in place
thousands of years ago; they weren't too enthused about who Jesus associated
with or with what he said; many of them tried to stone him, called him names, a
blasphemer and I'm sure there are many names that the Bible doesn't mention. Unfortunately
this was the kind of turmoil that caused Jesus to be crucified. Archbishop Timothy
Dolan called what the New York State Senate did in passing the Same Sex Marriage Act "detrimental to
the common good" and a violation of "natural law." <http://answersforthefaith.com/2011/06/27/ny-catholic-bishop-speaks-out-against-gay-marriage/>

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Some Christians are a strange
bunch; some Christians have gotten into their own clicks by separating
themselves from those that they don't like or would rather not be associated
with and who aren't like them; this goes beyond gay people. You see we have
some evil and some hateful people in our world, in our community, in our
schools, in our governments, in our prisons, but unfortunately we have some of
these evil, hateful, maniacal thinking and acting human beings in some of our
Churches and other places of worship. With people like this in our Churches one
has to ask where is Christianity and where is the love? You might get to pick
and choose whom you'd like to spend the rest of your life with but if you
follow the Biblical teachings, God's law and Jesus' commandments, then you don't
get to pick and choose which people to love.

Though many Churches are very
ornate in their clerical vestments, their elaborate robes, stoles, head
dresses, pastoral staffs and gold crosses, doesn't make them like jewelry stores.
Perhaps some Christian Churches put
too much emphasis on their vestments and Church de'cor instead of putting more
emphasis on loving everyone.

The Church needs to put aside
the issue of gays and same sex partners and focus on the real issue of loving
instead of being hateful and despicable to others. Many people don't want other
people to have the same rights that the Holy Bible speaks of as marriage being
between a man and a woman, the same way some rich people don't want poor people
to have what they have. They refuse to move that rock and see beyond what God
was and is talking about, love and loving each other. As human beings we need
to move beyond our differences so that we can approach getting to and beyond
the rainbow.

As I say in "Born In The Wrong Country," """Love
is life, it's precious and adorning, it's a crown rich and poor alike can wear
and be proud, for love is, and it knows no boundaries -- none. Love encompasses all of us, just allow
yourself to feel, to feel the spirit and its warmth, and if you open up, it
will take hold of you, if you just succumb to it.""" Those like minded people who are against Gay people and different ethnicities, against those
with certain diseases, against those who are poorer, against those who aren't
as literate, are the same kind of people that didn't make Jesus' stay a welcome
one, and who later crucified him because of who he was and what he said.

Jesus was clear about loving everyone; that is why he was murdered by
the same so-called Christians that enslaved the African people here in the United
States of American, that hung, whipped, chained the same people, that condone
hatred of your own children who are different from the so-called norm, that pay
less wages to those who are not like the so-called upper class and that allows
the government to in essence steal and cheat with insider trading, which is
legal for them but not only is it illegal for you and I but can be punished by
jail and or fines.

It seems like Christianity and the United
States of America make
good bed fellows; they both seem to protect those whom they hold higher than many
of the American people, the same way the Catholic Church has protected Priests that
have raped little boys. Perhaps there's a reason why our government puts In God
We Trust on the money that they print; perhaps it's their only real connection
to God and Christianity. Unfortunately words aren't the connection that real
Christianity calls for; real Christianity calls for love and respect, and those
things aren't found in the vestments of the Clergy, the dogma of the Church, in
the gold jewelry or in the stained glass windows of the very ornate Churches;
it is also not found in the millions of dollars given to the Church by various
Church goers or philanthropists.

Well here we are in 2012; when
will we finally get it and bring about our own epiphany and begin to let the
light that God has given us shine into this world? The late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. allowed the light that God gave him
to shine, and of the books that he wrote, one was called "Strength To Love;" some of his quotes can be found online at <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.>

The thing about love that we must understand is that in order to love
someone or something we need to practice it; the spark of love is generated
from that intuitive feeling that God gives all of us, which comes from feeling
good; love feels good and if we practice that feeling it will feel even better. It's like everything else; one
can never be an accomplished speaker, pianist, writer, singer, dancer, artist,
teacher, preacher, doctor or nurse unless they practice the things that are
related to becoming those people; in doing those things over and over one
becomes better; love works the same way. As a people we need to search our
hearts and listen to what God says when it comes to love.

Christianity is about loving; I believe that when you don't love then
you're committing a slow suicide because there is nothing to nurture your soul.
Love is L ife, O pportunity , V oice and E xpression. Wake up and find the strength to love your sons,
daughters and others who are different; they are God's gifts to you and to our
world, that's what Christianity is all about.

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